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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does “LST” stand for?
(a) Lost Station Tank.
(b) Last Standing Table.
(c) Landing Ship, Tanks.
(d) Last Significant Territory.

2. When Captain Walter Hancock found the catalogue of the articles from the museum at Aachen, he discovered that the most valuable items had been moved to what city in Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 17?
(a) Siegen, Germany.
(b) Salzburg, Austria.
(c) Nuremberg, Germany.
(d) Trier, Germany.

3. Who was assigned to inspect monuments in Sicily on his own with no resources or assistance and once in Italy became buried by bureaucracy, according to the author in Part I: “The Mission”?
(a) Major Ronald Edmund Balfour.
(b) Colonel George A. Taylor.
(c) Captain Mason Hammond.
(d) Lieutenant George Stout.

4. Where was George Stout from?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Winterset, Iowa.
(c) St. Louis, Missouri.
(d) Cleveland, Mississippi.

5. When did Major Ronald Edmund Balfour arrive at the cathedral in Bruges to assess the damage by the looting Germans?
(a) October 10, 1944.
(b) March 6, 1944.
(c) June 6, 1944.
(d) September 16, 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part II: “Northern Europe,” Chapter 21?

2. On what date was Michelangelo's Bruges Madonna sculpture taken by German soldiers in Belgium?

3. What field refers to the technical art of preserving older or damaged works of art?

4. On what date were America's cultural leaders called to a meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum director Francis Henry Taylor, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 3?

5. When did Captain Walker Hancock join George Stout on a mission to visit a repository that held Dutch masterpieces and an original Rembrandt and to arrange for the protection of the works?

Short Essay Questions

1. With whom did Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler work in his efforts at conservation in January of 1943, according to the author in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 5?

2. What did Captain Walker Hancock find when he returned to La Gleize after the Battle of the Bulge? How did he fulfill his mission there?

3. When did the Monuments Men operate? What was their mission in World War II?

4. What took place at the meeting of the Monuments Men in France on August 13, 1944? Where did they meet?

5. Who comprised the group known as the Monuments Men? How does the author characterize these individuals in his introduction to Part I: “The Mission”?

6. How does the author describe the mission of Captain Mason Hammond in Part I: "The Mission," Chapter 6?

7. How large was the MFAA when George Stout was first assigned to this unit in 1944? How were the members structured?

8. What realization did Second Lieutenant James J. Rorimer make regarding the locations of the most valuable works of art based on the information he gained from Rose Valland in 1945?

9. What reinforcements arrived to assist the Monuments Men in late 1944? What were their roles?

10. What mission did Captain Walker Hancock and Lieutenant George Stout undertake in October of 1944?

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